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| Research article summary (published 29 Apr 2002): |
Tics and psychiatric comorbidity in children and adolescents.
Full Abstract
This study examined comorbid psychiatric symptoms in a large, community-based sample of children and adolescents. The study sample comprised a total of 3006 school children:
413 preschool (3 to 5 years; 237 males, 176 females; mean age 4 years 2 months, SD 8 months), 1520 elementary school (5 to 12 years; 787 males, 733 females; mean age 8 years 2 months, SD 1 year 11 months), and 1073 secondary school children (12 to 18 years; 573 males, 500 females; mean age 14 years 4 months, SD 1 year 10 months), all of whom were attending regular education programs. Children were evaluated with a teacher-completed DSM-IV-referenced rating scale. The sample was divided into four groups:
attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder with tics (ADHD+tics), ADHD without tics (ADHD), tics without ADHD (T), and a comparison group i.e. neither ADHD nor tics (Non). The percentage of children with tic behaviors varied with age:
preschool children (22.3%), elementary school children (7.8%), and adolescents (3.4%). Tic behaviors were more common in males than females, regardless of comorbid ADHD symptoms. For many psychiatric symptoms, screening prevalence rates were highest for the ADHD groups (ADHD+tics>ADHD>T>Non). However, obsessive-compulsive and simple and social phobia symptoms were more common in the groups with tic behavior. Findings for a community-based sample show many similarities with studies of clinically referred samples suggesting that teacher-completed ratings of DSM-IV symptoms may be a useful methodology for investigating the phenomenology of tic disorders.
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Author information
Author/s: Gadow, Kenneth D (KD); Nolan, Edith E (EE); Sprafkin, Joyce (J); Schwartz, Joseph (J);
Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11794-8790, USA. kgadow(-atsign-)mail.psychiatry.sunysb.edu
Grants: MH 45358 (Agency:United States NIMH)
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Journal: Developmental medicine and child neurology (Dev Med Child Neurol), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-May; vol 44 (issue 5) : pp 330-8
Dates: Created 2002/05/29; Completed 2002/06/05; Revised 2007/11/14;
PMID: 12033719, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
Sourced from the National Library of Medicine. Abstract text and other information may be subject to copyright.
Comments and Corrections
CommentIn: Evid Based Ment Health. 2003 Feb;6(1):10. (PMID: 12588816)
ErratumIn: Dev Med Child Neurol 2002 Jul;44(7):502.
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